Received Mr Zappia's reply by snail mail. Short, to the point, and highly uninformative, but with a kinda-useful link (which was a sod to type).

( Behold my copytyping skills! )

Sigh. There was consultation. There is waffle.

( But she's being One Of The People in her signature, at least ... )

This arrived on Friday the 10th, but got caught in my spam filter. It's a total passing of the buck - I don't live in Butler's electorate, so Kate Ellis can deal with why Labor voted for this abomination. I swaped my 'giving a rat's arse' icon to something more in line with Mr Wright and Mr Butler's state of mind.

( Does anyone living in the electorate of Port Adelaide feel like asking the same thing? )

...and out of 21 people contacted, three have replied.

Time for a follow-up, I think.

( Second email sent... )

It's the media's fault, apparently, there's really nothing to be upset about ...

( Will be interested to hear reverancepavan's thoughts... )

Email reply received today from Family First Senator Bob Day's office (not from the Senator himself). Not exactly enlightening.

( Email that leads me to believe no one actually read the bill in full... )

Received today, via email.

( Senator Wright's response to my email about the passing of the National Security Amendment Bill (No.1) 2014 )

It's fair to say I'm not at all happy with the current Australian Government. We have a radical right-wing government who are about as conservative as Stalin, and who uare not overly concerned about people seeing how closely they are stitched to (and controlled by) Rupert Murdoch, Gina Reinhardt and other Australian Big Business concerns. The ( Read more... )